Synonyms and related words :
appalling, atrocious, awful, baneful, beastly, black, buskined, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cheerless, cothurned, crushing, deplorable, depressing, destructive, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dolorous, dreadful, fatal, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hapless, heavy, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mournful, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rotten, ruinous, sad, shocking, star-crossed, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unspeakable, upsetting, wreckful, wretched